THE
EDUCATION OF CHARLIE BANKS
 At 16, socially responsible upper west-sider CHARLIE BANKS
(Jesse Eisenberg) witnesses charismatic blue collar sociopath MICK
LEARY (Jason Ritter), 18, brutally beat two unwitting suburban
jocks at a high school party. Mick's a west village neighborhood
buddy of Charlie's best friend but Charlie's conscience gets the
better of him. Telling only his parents, he reports Mick to the
police. more
ADVENTURE
LAND
 It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan
(Jesse Eisenberg), an uptight recent college grad, can't
wait to embark on his dream tour of Europe. But when his
parents (Wendie Malick and Jack Gilpin) announce they can no
longer subsidize his trip, James has little choice but to take a
lowly job at a local amusement park. more
SUGAR
 Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a
Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it
to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty.
Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican
Republic, . more
PARIS
36
 The setting is Spring 1936 ; a working-class district in the
north of Paris. This neighborhood probably had a name once but now
everyone simply calls it The Faubourg. At the top of the hill is a
view over Paris to one side and, to the other, the burgeoning
suburbs of the city. In the center of town there is a small
square, a few shops, lopsided buildings, cobbled streets and the
peeling façade of the neighborhood music hall, the Chansonia. more
GIGANTIC
 Brian Weathersby (PAUL DANO) is a 28 year-old salesman at a
high-end Swedish mattress company. The afterthought child to
elderly parents (ED ASNER, JANE ALEXANDER), and the youngest son
in a trio of successful brothers, a shady oil man (IAN ROBERTS), a
surgeon (ROBERT STANTON), Brian is searching for his place in the
world. more
AMERICAN
VIOLET
 From Henry Selick, visionary director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE
CHRISTMAS, and based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling
book, comes a spectacular stop-motion animated adventure – the
first to be originally filmed in 3D! american_violet Jones (Dakota
Fanning) is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door
and discovers an alternate version of her life on the other side. more
LEMON
TREE
 Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass), a 45 years old widow from a small
Palestinian village in the West bank, finds herself at war with
the Israeli Minister of Defense (Doron Tavory) who built his house
on the green line border between Israel and the occupied
Territories on the edge of Salma’s lemon grove. more
SLEEP
DEALER
 The near future. Like tomorrow. The world is divided by closed
borders, but connected by a digital network that ties together
people around the world. Memo Cruz lives with his parents and his
brother in the small, dusty village of Santa Ana del Rio, in
Mexico. Santa Ana is an isolated farming community, the kind of
place that seems frozen in time -- except for the hi-tech,
militarized dam that was built by a corporation, more
THE
MERRY GENTLEMAN
 Running away from a troubled marriage, Kate Frazier hopes to
find anonymity with a new home and a new job in Chicago. Despite
friendly flirtation from co-workers and others, the shy and
reserved Kate keeps her distance, avoiding questions about her
sudden arrival and her recent past. more
THE
SKEPTIC
 Following the mysterious death of his aunt, Bryan Becket (Tim
Daly) separates from his wife (Andrea Roth) and young son, to move
into the elderly woman’s supposedly haunted Victorian mansion. A
die hard skeptic, he dismisses one eerie incident after another as
natural phenomena: more
ADORATION
 ADORATION speaks to our connections—with
each other, with our family history, with technology and
with the modern world.
Sabine (ARSINÉE KHANJIAN), a high school French teacher,
gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news
story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline
luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. more
RUDO
Y CURSI
 Beto (Diego Luna) and Tato (Gael García Bernal) Verdusco are
brothers who work at a banana plantation and also play soccer for
the village team. Nicknamed “Tough” because of his personality and
football style, Beto dreams of becoming a professional soccer
player; Tato’s dream is to be a famous singer, and both share the
dream of building a house for their mother, Elvira (Dolores
Heredia) more
LITTLE
ASHES
 In the midst of the repression and political unrest of
pre-Spanish Civil War, eccentric artist Salvador Dalí and renowned
poet and revolutionary Federico García Lorca find their artistic
and sexual freedom. The two form a bond challenged by their fierce
ambitions, their friends, the struggle between a love for Spain
and a love for each other. more
JULIA
 Julia, 40, is an alcoholic. She is a manipulative, unreliable,
compulsive liar, all strung out beneath her still flamboyant
exterior. Between shots of vodka and one-night stands, Julia gets
by on nickel-and-dime jobs. Increasingly lonely, the only
consideration she receives comes from her friend Mitch, who tries
to help her. more
BIG
MAN JAPAN
 A middle-aged slacker living in a rundown, graffiti-ridden slum,
Daisato’s job involves being shocked by bolts of electricity that
transform him into a stocky, stick-wielding giant several stories
high who is entrusted with defending Japan from a host of bizarre
monsters. more
MANAGEMENT
 MANAGEMENT is a romantic comedy that chronicles a chance meeting
between Mike Cranshaw (Steve Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Jennifer
Aniston). When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's
parents in Arizona, what starts with a bottle of wine "compliments
of management" soon evolves into a multi-layered, cross-country
journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose. more
EASY
VIRTUE
 John Whittaker, a young Englishman, falls madly in love with
Larita, a sexy and glamorous American woman, and they marry
impetuously. However when the couple returns to the family home,
his mother Mrs Whittaker has an instant allergic reaction to her
new daughter-in-law. Larita tries her best to fit in but fails to
tiptoe through the minefield laid by her mother-in-law. more
THE
GRILFRIEND EXPERIENCE
 Set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election,
THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE is five days in the life of Chelsea
(adult film star Sasha Grey in her mainstream film debut), an
ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her
clients, but companionship and conversation – “the girlfriend
experience. more
AWAY
WE GO
 Exploring
the comedic twists and emotional turns in one couple's journey
across contemporary America, Away We Go is the new movie from
Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes, from the first original
screenplay by novelists Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida, and featuring
music by singer/songwriter Alexi Murdoch.
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MOON
 It
is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side
of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar
Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It
is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no
live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and
receive.
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